Competition Electronics Turbo 35 GFX:
The good:
-Great quality.
-Will hold its value.
-Precise.
-Upgradeble.
The bad:
-Too many features.
Grafh curves: You can not use that on such a small screen.
Charge rate up to 20 amps: Go more than 10A and you are nuts.
Motor run-in and discharger: You can't do two things at the same time so you need an other charger.
-Too big.
-Ugly.

Competition Electronics Pitbull:
Probably as good as the GFX with none of the stupid features.

I think the CE GFX is a darn nice looking charger. It's still pretty rare in the pits (right now atleast) so you'll see a lot of heads turn when people see it, and just think of the intimidation factor....best charger out there, he's gotta be a hardcore and excelent driver! If I wasn't saving up for a new nitro car at the moment I would purchase it. I own the reedy quasar pro for my primary charger and think that's a darn nice charger also... It does what I need.

That Yokomo looks a beast, who's going to bother carrying all that to the track

First you better check your details Barry White, the current ProTrak discharges upto 20amps, thats the defualt at the moment.
I just got a ProTrak myself and think it's great.
Cheaper than a GFX, especially if you live in the UK
You can get attachments like a temperature tray which has four probes to measure temps across the pack, this can be used to peak your cells at a certain temperature rather than delta, although you still set a safety delta. There is also a motor run in stand which lets you run motors in with a pulsed rate aswell as linear.
It's the only charger I know of that has leads for individual cells which you can use if you want to check for dud cells whilst the pack is still built. you can also hook it up to your pc and get charge/discharge grapgs for the whole pack and each cell. The individual leads also mean the charger will peak if just one cell reaches the delta so no cell is overcharged.
It's the most regularly upgraded charger and there have been no massive upgrades that require a new charger to be bought instead, although some very early versions are more costly to upgrade. Not that you need every new version, there are just lots of little things tweaked that once in a while, say once a year, you may want to go up to a newer version.
Ok it looks "industrial" but now it comes with nice purple or blue anodized heatsinks aswell as black and some more colourful front panels, you can even create your own front panel.
Yet another plus is that it's British made, no worries about build quality

Barry White; Under the 35GFX, you say: Go more than 10A and you are nuts. Under some of the other chargers, you say 10 amps are too little

Personally, I dont care about the motor run in feature: 3 cells from an old pack will do the job !

Anyway, here's my favorite charger, with 3-phase charging technique:

From Robitronics site:

In Phase 1 the battery is charged with a very high current (8-9 Amps) which will lead to an increased voltage during discharge.
In Phase 2 the charge rate is like any Pro charger using a current
setting of 5-6 Amps.
In Phase 3 the charge current is reduced to 3-4 Amps which will result in a siginficantly higher capacity.
These 3 different phases of charging using optimized charge rates instead of a fixed charge rate over the complete charging cycle are leading to increased voltage during discharge and higher overall capacity.
Experts may use these advantages to gain more speed and longer run times without changing the gear ratio.

babel translation for the charger SPEC.
CDR 5000
Charge is possible to 36 cells.
Charge 10A.
Discharge 40A.
When the air warm, humidity sensor it is attached and - the terminal harness of selling separately (the line where the alligator oral clip is attached) it attaches,
information every of cell can be managed.
Data memory 10 is possible.
The various data the graph 6 it can indicate? Liquid crystal monitor attachment about in 7 centimeter angle.
It is connected to the computer.

Pro-Trak is the best charger there is. For what started as a small English company they are now sold all over the world and i am sure you noticed them in the hobby shops while we were in Japan Sideshow Bob? O and they discharge at 20 amps now. Rick

Originally posted by Rick Draper Pro-Trak is the best charger there is. For what started as a small English company they are now sold all over the world and i am sure you noticed them in the hobby shops while we were in Japan Sideshow Bob? O and they discharge at 20 amps now. Rick

Wow, that Pro-Trak charger does look nice. I like how it measures each cell individually when charging. Now if I could just figure out where to purchase one.

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